Last name: Toma. Recorded in over two hundred spelling forms ranging from the British Tomas and Thomas, the Italian Tommasi and Toma, the German Thom, Thomas, Thoma, Thumm, and Thome, the Slavonic Tomaschek, the Russian Fominov, the Belorussian Tomich and Khomich. the Swedish Thomasson, and many, many, others, the origin is Aramaic.
FACS is an abbreviation for a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. This is a very prestigious honor only bestowed upon surgeons after completing stringent residency requirements.
Many doctors and other medical professionals have a string of abbreviations after their names to indicate their credentials, areas of specialization and certifications. Most of us recognize M.D. and D.D.S. as medical doctor or doctor of dental surgery.. However, some of the others have little meaning to those outside the medical profession. One such acronym is FACS.